Pushkar Guesthouse

... an amazing rikshaw family in Jaipur. Came to Pushkar for only few days, stayed almost 2 weeks, chilling at this lovely nature guesthouse Yash Star; cloth shopping and enjoying music camp fire evenings. Difficult to leave, but we are on our way South to ...

... the taxi waiting to take us to Ajmer, in preparation for getting the train to Delhi for our onward flight.  On arrival, our guesthouse owner was shuffling nervously.  "Are you sure you are getting a train in half an hour?", he queried.  We ...

... any trouble. By that stage it was about 2, so we took the rest of the afternoon off and lay around at the guesthouse doing nothing, good times. Pushkar is a holy hindu city, so they do not serve meat, eggs or beer (although "special" lassi's are listed ...

... days and generally recovering from the rest of India which is a tad more chaotic! We had found ourselves a sweet little guesthouse called the Milkman where we enjoyed meeting many other travellers (later becoming good friends). The common area was very ...

... kam seinen Ruf einer kleinen vertraeumten Pilgerstadt mit zugekifften Touristen perfekt nach. In meinem von einer netten Familie gefuehrten Guesthouse traf ich auch gleich die erste "Gestalt", die eigentlich ein eigenes Kapitel verdient haette. Claude. ...

... hotel custodians.  However, within a few minutes lights were turned on and we were welcomed in to Shri Shyam Krishna Guesthouse.  Now there is a simple moral to this story:  never take an overnight sleeper bus from Jaisalmer to ...

... text as the spirit moves me, but suffice it to say that through some confusion on the part of myself and one of the guesthouse staff, I have been thoroughly enjoying a nice healthy bout of Shiva's revenge, which I though I had conquered a couple of days ...

"Brahma dropped a lotus flower on the earth – so say the epics – and Pushkar appeared", as quoted in the Lonely Planet; and this is the way it appeared to us if one could overlook the ubiquitous mounds of cow dung around the streets and the ...

... equivalent of about $7) and was our cheapest room to date in India. The fan ended up doing the job fine, and this guesthouse, despite its bargain basement price, turned out to be much better than other Indian accommodations that we had paid four or five ...

... . Mica had been here a week already, so I was spared the usual groundwork and checked straight into her guesthouse. First impressions of Pushkar are good: it's a charming place in the middle of the desert, built around a holy lake where pilgrims and ...

... fair and prices escalate through the roof! I was collected from Ajmer train station (about 12kms away) arranged by my guesthouse so I didn't have to contend with unscrupulous taxi/rickshaw drivers... Pushkar is a prominent Hindu pilgrimage town, and ...

... the bus from Jodhpur to Ajmer. I lost track of time a little grabbing some food and chatting to other travellers. The guesthouse quickly threw me into an Autorickshaw, with him under strict instructions to get me to the bus station pronto. The ...

... the hot drink of choice. We moved hotels from Sanjay on the market to Milkman which is an Indian family run guesthouse down a couple of back alleys where cows like to wander and children play. The houses are built around a central courtyard where ...

... . This place is also full of bloody hippies. And flies (maybe there's a link?) Thank god for the peaceful haven of the guesthouse garden, complete with roaming white rabbits and all you can eat buffets for about 60p! Great for me, and though Sarah was ...

... of which is the Brahma temple which is the only one in the whole world. We stepped off the coach and into the first guesthouse, asked if they had a room and were immediately shown to one whose tag line was "the man who was staying here was taken to ...

... express train, we were welcomed by a hoard of rickshaw drivers, and eventually found a friendly guy to take us to the guesthouse. However, we were to encounter the famous pushiness (and libido) of the Indian male. A blonde walked along the rickshaw, and ...

... means so much in the Indian way of life. We climbed a hill that overlooks the town and got some great views of the flat countryside around and Pushkar. We then headed back to our guesthouse to get some sleep before our 03:45 train left Ajmer to ...

... Jaipur, I head to Pushkar. The sights of this village I couldn't see because the darkness of night coming soon after arrival. But the very familar and very friendly Guesthouse with home-away-home-feeling was more sensational and the stopover worth ...

... ;last night i hardly slept at all.  Luckily this hotel I'm now in is so so much nicer, a hotel rather than a guesthouse.  I hadn't wanted to complain about the last place because i'd chosen the 'economy' option so wasn't expecting great things. ...